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With the Dot

Paul Klee, 1916

With the Dot by Paul Klee
With the Dot by Paul Klee, 15 cm × 12 cm
1.70 m
Both at true scale.

15 cm × 12 cm

Smaller than your phone. You would need 12 of them to reach a person's height.

Against things you know the size of

This work 12 cm Phone 15 cm A4 sheet 30 cm Person 1.7 m Doorway 2.03 m
Height
12 cm
Width
15 cm
Medium
pen and black ink
Kind
Drawing
Made in
Germany, 20th century
Where the measurement comes from
Measured by the museum. The dimension is the one recorded by the institution that holds the work.
As the museum records it
Sheet: 12.4 x 14.5 cm (4 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
Credit
Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art

Ask this work

Five questions, answered from its own record. What is AGAI?

How big is it?
15 cm × 12 cm. Smaller than your phone. Measured by the museum.
When was it made, and when is it everyone’s?
Made 1916. It is in the public domain, and The Cleveland Museum of Art publishes it for open use.
Whose is it?
Everyone’s to see. It is held by The Cleveland Museum of Art: Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art.
How was it made?
Pen and black ink, made in Germany, 20th century, Germany, 20th century.
Who speaks for it?
Its record at The Cleveland Museum of Art. Measured by the museum. This gallery adds nothing it cannot cite.

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Hangs well beside

Scored on colour, shape, era and scale, the same way the gallery hangs them.